Calvert, MD  1800 Federal Census

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
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The Calvert County, Maryland 1800 Federal Census is somewhat of a mess.  
On 13 April 1801 Benjamin Mackall, Assistant to the Marshal of Maryland signed and 
completed his duties for the gathering of the names and number of persons living in 
the County.  His total was 8,297.  It would appear that he did an outstanding job.  
Unfortunately when the census was microfilmed that same care was not taken, including 
the fact that the original census was then destroyed.

These census pages were cut into sections, at which time any page number assigned 
by Mr. Mackall was lost.  Someone other that Mr. Mackall wrote page numbers anywhere 
or other on most of the pages.  This might not have been a problem except that the 
pages are in order - until you get to the above mentioned fraction of pages, then the 
person would write "see page so & so" and added these pages at the end of the film.  

Now, even this might not be a problem but for the likely hood that they taped the 
original census to something.  I believe several names are lost to the ages because 
we cannot read the area that was taped, also, the numbering is not on all pages.  
I hope this Census transcribing will help you, but should the name you are searching 
for not be on this listing, it probably means just that - it is not on this listing 
- the person may well have been in Calvert.  I have a "less than desirable", printed 
from microfilm, copy of this Census - feel free to email me re: the questionable "*".

Wilma Kaplan
wakrek@aol.com
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This Census was transcribed by Wilma Kaplan <wakrek@aol.com> 
and proofread by Barbara Clements for the USGenWeb Census Project 
http://www.usgenweb.org/census.
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